2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games


The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games was a sporting event held from June, 25th 2011 – July, 4th 2011 in Athens, Greece. The opening ceremony of the games took place on 25 June 2011 at the Panathenaic Stadium and the closing ceremony was held on 4 July 2011.
"Over 7,500" athletes, from 185 countries, competed in a total of twenty-two sports.

Sports

was represented by 40 athletes.
Egypt was represented by 77 athletes competing in 11 sports. They won 41 medals.
Bharat was represented by 256 athletes.
Lithuania was represented by 17 athletes.
New Zealand was represented by 35 athletes competing in seven sports winning Gold medals in all 7 sports they participated in except for Basketball: athletics , Aquatics Sam Donaldson won the first medal of the games in the 800m Freestyle, Basketball, Ten Pin Bowling, Equestrian , Golf and Powerlifting .
Pakistan was represented by 90 athletes, winning 56 Medals,. Adeel Ameer captured 3 Gold Medals, winning 100-metre, high-jump and 4×100 metre events.
Philippines was represented by 38 athletes competing in six sports: athletics, aquatics, badminton, bowling, gymnastics and powerlifting.
Samoa was represented by 8 athletes.
The United Kingdom was represented by 151 athletes despite being plagued by a flu.
The Vietnam was represented by 8 athletes competing in two sports: athletics, Bocce.
The South Korea was represented by 1 athlete competing in athletics and won 4 gold medals in 100m, shot put, 400m hurdles and javelin.
A total of 146 athletes represented Ireland in the Special Olympics 2011 World Summer Games. They returned to Ireland with a total of 106 medals.